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biodiversity
Question | Answer |
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What does photosynthetic mean? | Organisms that can use carbon dioxide and energy from the sunlight to produce oxygen. |
What does GFP stand for? | green fluorescent protein. |
What does extinct mean? | A species that has completely died out. |
How do oceans play a role in regulating Earth's climate and weathers? | By absorbing and releasing heat energy. |
How do we depend on Earth's ocean? | Goods and products are transported throughout the ocean. Gold, silver, etc are retrieved through mining. |
What are estuaries? | They are coastal water bodies that receive river flow and open into the river. |
What is going on with water pollution? | People are dumping waste into sewers or rivers that empty into the ocean. |
Invasive species are new organisms that are introduced to non-native ecosystems. Why could this be a bad thing? | Invasive species can promote the spread of disease. |
What does global warming mean? | A trend of climate change observed by scientists that shows a average temperatures on Earth to be gradually increasing. |